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- Scots author hits back at Paxman over attack on Burns’s poetry (The Herald)
A leading Scottish author, angered by Jeremy Paxman's dismissal of Burns as a "king of sentimental doggerel", yesterday proposed a novel revenge against the controversial broadcaster.
- CRITICAL MASS : Henry Poole flows with lyricism - Arkansas Democrat Gazette
CRITICAL MASS : Henry Poole flows with lyricismArkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - 9 minutes agoMaybe a music video is to a narrative film as a poem is to a novel. And maybe one way to look at Henry Poole Is Here, a smart, sad and ultimately uplifting ...
- Fiesta of the arts - Kansas City Star
Fiesta of the artsKansas City Star, MO - 18 hours agoIn addition to live painting (murals and graffiti) she’s arranged for live music, free food (from Los Alamos), a poetry reading (from the Latino Writers ...
- Grant Park's 'Big Sur' concerto captures the West Coast - Chicago Tribune
On Wednesday, the Grant Park Orchestra under former principal conductor Hugh Wolff gave an estimated 13,000 listeners at Millennium Park a bracing shot of new American music that included the Chicago premiere of John Adams ' "The Dharma at Big Sur ...
- Artist puts inspiring ideas into words - Record Searchlight
Decorative artist Debbie Slavin of Red Bluff, in her studio surrounded by her work, puts finishing touches on a current project. Red Bluff resident Debbie Slavin could identify with the Jimmy Webb song, "If These Walls Could Speak." For more than 30 ...
- A Hollywood Lens on Politics (Washington Post)
Obama and McCain want biggest role in politics, yet each offers very different star qualities.
- Why Korean Professors Stay Put - New York Times Blogs
In the U.S. many academic economists are constantly looking for jobs at other schools, hoping to get large salary increases either in the new job or at their current one, to move to a more desirable location, or have better students. And a lot of ...
- Michael Dobson and Nicola J Watson's top 10 books about Elizabeth I - guardian.co.uk
Michael Dobson and Nicola J Watson's top 10 books about Elizabeth Iguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 22, 2008Sir Walter Scott's classic pretty much invented 19th century mock-Tudor, and it's still a sumptuous read long after the vogue for heavy solid black oak ...
- August 2 to 23 (Rome Observer)
Love and Memory quilt show in the West Gallery of the Earlville Opera House. Local quilters invited to exhibit their quilts to celebrate this region's quilting culture. Quilters write a description of how quilt fits the theme "Love and Memory."
- All About Barbie - San Francisco Gate
Barbie is the ultimate cougar. She's single, frolics with younger men and, at 49 years old, doesn't look a day over 17. That is, until she's altered. "She's sexy. But the concept of altering Barbie, of turning her into a piece of art, brings it into ...
- Cubby Bernstein, online dads and more: It's New on the Net - Cleveland Plain Dealer
With the Tony Awards on Sunday night, it's an appropriate time to check out "Cubby Bernstein," a pre-Tonys promo for the show "Xanadu" that's cleverly disguised as (or also is) a funny mockumentary series about a kid billed as "the best Tony campaign ...
- Summer means more time for reading, what's your favorite book? - MLive.com
While the weather outside was frightful -- at least for June -- I sat inside and read a book. Nobody was home. No television. No music. Just the soft flutter of the page turning and the pounding rain interrupted by thunder outside. It was like ...
- Close your eyes when you visit this beach - Anchorage Daily News (subscription)
Close your eyes when you visit this beachAnchorage Daily News (subscription), AK - 10 hours agoLiam, a river guide and running coach who reads a lot of poetry, owns a recumbent bicycle instead of a car and was the high school commencement speaker said ...
- POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES: Kay Ryan Poems that turn ... - San Francisco Chronicle
POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES: Kay Ryan Poems that turn ...San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 2 hours agoRyan's work has appeared in four editions of "The Best American Poetry" and in three Pushcart Prizes anthologies. She has also received a 2004 Guggenheim ...
- Crowded house - VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet BridgeCrowded houseVietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - 6 hours agoAlong with two scholar friends of his, Trang Bung and Lieu Hanh whiled away the hours drinking, reciting poetry and playing music. ...
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